Page 36 of Relyn (Warriors of Etlon #6)

“No, there are over a dozen other women here. They’ve all been kidnapped, but they were too scared to come out when we found the door unlocked,” Nora said. “Please help us.”

“Don’t worry. We’re on our way. Just go back to the courtyard and we’ll be there to rescue you in a few hours.”

“Oh. Okay. Thank you so much,” Nora said and severed the contact.

“Go back to the courtyard?” Denise said mockingly. “Are we stupid? Hopefully she doesn’t try to contact the Bitch or the guards to chew them out. That was quick thinking, telling her that. Hopefully she’ll walk right in and check to make sure everyone is accounted for.”

“Unless she tries to contact Patches and Boots and doesn’t get an answer,” Nora countered. “And I hope they are out so long that if there’s com equipment, they’re too far gone to use it.”

Nora wanted to try and contact Relyn again, but the risk was too great. They didn’t know enough about how to secure a channel to make absolutely sure that Alana wasn’t listening. For now, they just had to relay the update to the rest of the women and wait.

After an hour, the women checked in. They’d found three laser pistols and several women had picked up other blunt objects that would be useful as weapons. Penny, it turned out, found a treasure trove in the medical rooms.

“I was a nurse and I did a rotation on Shackleton,” she said as she handed out eight devices. “These are basically point and click syringes and I’ve filled them with enough sedative to knock out an elephant.”

“I do not know what an elephant is,” Pila said, causing the Earth ladies to giggle.

“Just about the biggest land mammal we have on our planet. It’s got a- never mind. It’ll take down anything. Just act all helpless and then smack it on their skin and push this button and wham,” Penny said, clapping her hands together to indicate an object falling down.

The syringes were distributed amongst the crowd and they all went to their spots to wait.

It was a long three or four hours before the roar of the ship’s engines touched down outside the atmosphere dome.

Nora, along with Denise and Pila, crouched down staring at the ship from the building closest to the pad.

They waited. No one came out of the ship.

They waited some more, nearly twenty minutes and still, nothing.

“Should we?” Denise asked, motioning to go.

“If she suspects a trap, then it’s best not to spring it,” Pila cautioned. She was right. They really only had one chance at it.

“But if she refuses to walk into it?” Nora asked.

“What’s she going to do? Kill us all and start over again with getting her baby makers?” Denise asked.

“It can’t be easy to grab all these women without drawing attention to themselves,” Nora said. They had drawn attention already. That’s why Bright and Relyn had both been hanging out with the pirates.

“I’ve got an idea!” Nora said. “Hand me that scarf,” she said to Pila, who had a gauzy scarf wrapped around her midsection.

As long as she could hide her hair, Nora might pass as Charlette from a distance, especially if she sold her better than thou attitude.

Charlette would have just been told by a guard that Alana expected her to pop out babies as well, and would be pissed enough to throw caution to the wind.

Nora wrapped the scarf around her hair and over her head. She put her hands on her hips, let out a huff, and stormed out to the ship. She didn’t even slow when the air grew thin, and she gasped for breath.

She pounded on the panel of the hatch, and surprisingly, the hatch ramp began to descend. And that’s when she realized that she hadn’t brought a weapon with her.

It was too late to go back and grab one, and any other women would set off alarms. Alana would definitely know she wasn’t Charlette a second or two after seeing her.

“Oh thank God you’re here!” Nora shouted as she ran up the ramp, ignoring her spinning head. The flush of cold oxygen from the ship was a relief as she looked around. There was a familiar crate in the center of the hull and Alana stood alone, poised to open it.

“Of course it would be you that got out,” Alana said. She didn’t seem too alarmed by her situation.

“Where are Dumpy and Slumpy?” Nora asked, referring to the other two guards that had flown off with Alana.

“Dumpy and- oh!” She gave a little laugh, as if she got the nickname.

“Men are so predictable. The moment I got my hands on the crate, they tried to change their split. What they never realized was that when I said this cargo is priceless, I meant that it couldn’t be sold,” Alana said, cracking the top lid.

Nora realized that she was talking about them in the past tense. She scanned the room for a weapon.

“So you killed them,” Nora said.

“I spaced them,” Alana confirmed. “We won’t need them anyway.” She lifted a canister out of the crate, and held it like a baby.

“You realize that you’ve been going about this the wrong way the whole time. There are plenty of women back on Earth that would jump at the chance to leave in exchange for surrogacy services.”

“You think the Mahdfel would let such a thing happen? It would take away females from their precious mate pool. Even if none of them were good matches, they are too full of themselves and their drive to fuck to even consider such a thing,” Alana said.

“Did you even ask?” Nora saw a goopy pool sliding out of the box. Alana was too busy messing with the canister to notice.

“My husband never asked me about anything. I was nothing but a place to put his mutated seed.”

“You can’t judge an entire species by just one individual.

I mean, if I had to judge Etlonians by just you and Bright, I’d have to say the results would not be favorable.

She spends her time plotting how to lie directly to your face, and you, well, you just admitted you killed two of your own crew just because they asked for a raise.

Perhaps it’s better for Etlonians to be wiped from the face of the Earth… I mean universe.”

Alana let out a screech and lunged, but she was stopped short by the quick moving puddle of goo that surrounded her.

“I’ve got her!” a mouth from the side of the blob said.

“Hold her for a minute. I’ll be right back,” Nora said. Alana continued to scream and flail, but she was clearly caught. Nora sped back out and brought back reinforcements. Penny smacked Alana on the cheek, and a moment later, her eyelids fluttered and she was out.

“You’re not generally supposed to administer them on the face,” Penny said, revealing the mini syringe device. “But that was so satisfying.”

“So what do we do with her?” Denise said.

There was no time for debate before the roar of a second set of engines sounded next to the ship.

Nora raced out, just in time to see Bright and Relyn sprint out of it, laser pistols at the ready.

“See? I told you he’d come rescue me!” Nora shouted.

“He’s a little late,” Denise said giggling.

Nora ignored her and held her arms out for what she expected to be a hug. Instead, Relyn scooped her up in his arms and ran back to the ship.

“Hey honey, we captured Alana and all her guards. Well, technically she took care of two of them, but there’s no hurry now-”

They flashed by Wendy and into the main cabin quarters.

“Grom!” Wendy shouted.

“Fine!” Nora shouted before Relyn closed the door. “We probably should go back out and-”

That was as far as she got before Relyn slid her down and into a toe curling kiss. Nora felt him begin to liquify around her. He melted through her clothes and wherever he touched her skin she burned with pleasure.

“Don’t eat the scarf! It’s not mine!”

Relyn paused and Nora managed to unwrap herself from the scarf and toss it clear before he completely enveloped her from the neck down.

Her toes lost purchase from the floor and she was suspended completely inside his warm pulsing form.

When he sought entrance to her inner folds, she was more than ready.

“Yes, Relyn, yes!”

He thrust inside her, a few dozen little tendrils playing with her clit.

Both of them knew this was going to be the desperate, quick reunion that both of them craved.

Later there would be time to celebrate, time to come to terms with everything.

This was the quick, frenetic joining that they both needed.

Relyn continued to claim her in his true form, thrusting into her powerfully. Combined with the touch of him everywhere on her skin, Nora was on her third orgasm before he slid her over to the bed and reformed on top of her as Rel.

Nora reached up and stroked his horn. “I can’t tell if you’ve come yet,” she said.

The sexy grin on his face grew as he shifted into Relyn the Mahdfel. Her eyes widened as his cock grew inside her and the tattoos that formed on his skin glowed like a night light.

“No, I suppose?”

He withdrew and thrust into her again, igniting all her fires causing her to moan loudly.

“I know you’ve come,” he said. “Several times. I can feel your body clenching around me.”

“You’re going to make me come again,” Nora bit out between another moan.

“Good.”

“Take your pleasure,” Nora whispered, begged. It was all he needed to hear, which was fine, because Nora toppled into another wave of pleasure. Relyn pulled her to him and let out a moan of his own, emptying himself inside her.

After a long moment, he rolled the pair of them, tucking her on top of him. She felt so small against this Relyn, but it was comforting.

“Thanks for coming to my rescue. I didn’t doubt it,” Nora said. “But I had it covered, just in case.”

She felt Relyn’s sigh rise and fall.

“I am just glad you are safe. I should die if you are harmed,” he said.

She patted him on the chest. “Now you know how I feel when I see you fighting those big gorillas.”

“I feared your death, constantly,” he said.

“Exactly!”

He seemed put out by the fact that she thought he could actually lose a fight. He sighed again. “Your journey to Terra may have to be delayed again.”

Home. She honestly hadn’t thought about it in days. Going back to her old life seemed laughable now. What would Relyn do on Earth while she was spending day in and day out inside a classroom, teaching surly teenagers the classics?

“As long as we can get help for my student Marco, I can delay a trip indefinitely. I mean there are a few things that I’d like to have-”

Relyn pulled her up for a long lingering kiss.

“My life is with you now, big guy,” she said.

“I am yours. I will make you a home.”

Nora smiled. “I think we have a mess to clean up first.”

“I absorbed most of it, I think.”

“I wasn’t talking about that mess. You did eat my clothes, I see.”

He shrugged. “I like you naked.”

“Well, I like you anyway I can have you,” she replied.

“What about the mess?”

“It can wait.”